themakeupgallery | disguise | wigs | 1990s
updated: 20/03/2007
The Con: A con woman (Rebecca De Mornay) needs money so she sets out to con a lonely man out of an inheritance he doesn’t know he’s about to receive. She cuts and dyes her hair to become a conservative-looking school-teacher. Along the way she is also seen in a couple of other disguises: a nun and a bar-room girl. Essentially a caper movie with the usual happy ending. I don’t know the makeup credits for this TV movie: if anyone can enlighten me please email me.
Snake Eyes: Julia Costello (Carla Gugino) is a whistleblower who adopts a blonde disguise and heavier makeup to hand over documents. It is an apparently simple disguise makeup but the American Society of Cinematographers ASC Studio shows what this involved in lighting and makeup tests. Lucille Demers and Fern Buchner were supervising makeup artists on the movie.
Twelve Monkeys: Classic Terry Gilliam; a deadly virus wiped out five billion people in 1996 and in 2035 the survivors are still forced to live underground; a convict reluctantly ‘volunteers’ to be sent back in time to get a sample of the virus; but he arrives six years early and is placed in a mental institution. He kidnaps the psychiatrist, Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe), escapes, and sets off to find the 12 Monkeys (the group of revolutionaries who supposedly developed and released the virus), but he is now wanted for murder and kidnapping. He falls in love with Kathryn; refuses to return to the future; she in turn falls for him and dyes her hair to escape with him. But . . . Christine Beveridge was the hair and makeup designer.
Blue Tiger: When her son is killed, Gina Hayes (Virginia Madsen) is obsessed with getting revenge. She changes her appearance and gets extensively tattooed to try to find and get close to the Japanese gangster responsible. Ah but it’s a movie so life gets a little more complicated than she anticipated. Michael Bacon was responsible for the special tattoo effects; Lisa Buono was key hair and makeup artist and Rose Librizzi was responsible for Virginia Madsen’s hair and makeup.